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A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century - Page 53
by Robert Kerr - 1815
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 392 pages
...thereby confirming his wavering * Hand unto the Animofity of that Attempt. « It is the heavieft Stone that Melancholy can * throw at a Man, to tell him...there is no further State to come, * unto which this feemsprogreflional, and otherwife * made in vain : Without this Accomplifhment, the * natural Expectation...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. ...

1774 - 390 pages
...his wavering *:Hand unto the Animofity of that Attempt. •'.'••••It is the heavicft Stone that Melancholy can •' throw at a Man, to tell him he is at the End of his 'f.lNature; or that there is no further State to com?, ~? '.unto which this feerns progrefTional, and...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...thereby confirm" ing his wavering hand unto the animofity of that " attempt. " It is the heavieft ftone that melancholy can throw " at a man, to tell him...the end of his nature; " or that there is no further ftate to come, unto which " this feems progreffional, and otherwife made in vain: " without this accomplifhment,...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...thereby confirm" ing his wavering hand unto the animofity of that " attempt. " It is the heavieft ftone that melancholy can throw " at a man, to tell him...the end of his nature; " or that there is no further ftate to come, unto which " this feems progreffional, and otherwife made in vain: " without this accomplifhment,...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...thereby confirm" ing his wavering hand unto the animofity of that " attempt. " It is the heavieft flone that melancholy can throw " at a man, to tell him...the end of his nature; " or that there is no further ftate to come, unto which " this feems progreffional, and otherwife made in vain: " without this accomplifhment,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 548 pages
...animosity of that attempt. ' . 'i '•'•: ' •'i' . . " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy cart throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his natnre; or that there is no fnrther state to. come, nnto which this seems progressional, and otherwise...
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A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged ..., Issue 24

General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...Tupaptne and the inclosures Moral. Tlie Morais are also places of worship.1 As 7 " It is the heaviest stone," says Sir Thomas Brown in his curious work...Hydriotaphia, " that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell hiui he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 13

Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1815 - 550 pages
...Tupapow and the inclosures Moral. The Morals are also places of worship.7 As 7 " It is the heaviest stone," says Sir Thomas Brown in his curious work...that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he 19 at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional,...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 pages
...those audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again. — It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature, or that there is no farther state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.' We cannot...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...those audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again. — It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature, or that there is no farther state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.' We cannot...
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